Satya Pal Malik

Satya Pal Malik (born 24 July 1946) is an Indian politician.

In 1968–69, Malik was elected as the students union president, commencing his political career.

Malik was first elected to any public office was as a member of legislative assembly from Baghpat after he successfully contested the election as member of Charan Singh's Bharatiya Kranti Dal.

He won the election by receiving 42.4% of the votes cast and defeating his nearest rival Acharya Deepankar of the Communist party of India who got 31.6% of the total votes cast.

Later, after the formation of Bharatiya Lok Dal, he joined the party and became the general secretary of Lok Dal.

On 8 November 2021, Malik was invited to Global Jat Summit and in his speech, he warned the Indian government regarding the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest and said "you will not be able to overcome the Sikhs. The Guru's four children were slaughtered, but the Guru refused to surrender. You cannot defeat the Jats either."

He also added, "Indira Gandhi knew that she would be killed and she was killed [for ordering Bluestar]. They killed General Vaidya in Pune [for leading Bluestar] and Michael O'Dwyer in London [Lieutenant Governor Of Punjab during Jallianwala Bagh massacre]. I have even said that don't test the patience of the Sikh community."

This was used as an outro snippet on the controversial song SYL by Sidhu Moose Wala.

On 14 April 2023, in an interview to Karan Thapar, Malik gave his views on Pulwama attack and Narendra Modi.

His first prominent stint as a politician was as a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly during 1974–77.

He represented Uttar Pradesh in Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1986 and 1986–89.

He was member of the 9th Lok Sabha from Aligarh, from 1989 to 1991, as member of Janata Dal.

He was the Governor of Bihar from October 2017 to August 2018.

On 21 March 2018, he was also given additional charge to serve as Governor of Odisha up to 28 May 2018.

In August 2018, he was appointed Governor to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Malik was born in Hisawada village of Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh in a Jat family.

He pursued Bachelor of Science and LLB degrees from Meerut College.

Malik served as the 10th and last Governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, from August 2018 to October 2019, and it was during his tenure that revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was taken on 5 August 2019.

Later, he moved to Goa, becoming 18th governor, and also served as the 21st Governor of Meghalaya until October 2022.